SwiftKey keyboard half-price for one day only

SwiftKey celebrates five years of Android phones with 50 percent off deal

Popular third-party keyboard SwiftKey can be had for half the usual price today, in celebration of five years since the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, launched in the U.S. That means depending on your location, you can pick up one of the best aftermarket keyboards out there for $1.99, £1.49 or €1.99.

SwiftKey's also pushing ahead with the next major version of the app, which adds more keyboard layouts for easier operation on tablets and larger smartphones. Check out our hands-on preview at the link below.

Tried SK for quite a while and went back to Google Keyboard. I liked SK's predictive words, works way better than Google, however it just seemed SK made both my N4 and N7 lag. When the keyboard needed to pop up, sometimes SK would just take too long, aka not-so-swift-key. Also sometimes SK would lag while typing and took a few secs to catch up. Google may be simpler but it works fine. If you really need to 'swiftkey' I'd suggest working on thumb/finger speed instead.

I got swiftkey for free on amazons app store a couple of weeks ago. I love the customization and the ability to adjust the size of the keys, but absolutely refuse to use any sort of predictive text (just not for me, bugs me more than it helps me) so I was dissapointed to find I couldnt turn it off..I realize this is a huge part of what makes swiftkey but it's just not for me.

I actually just started using swift key. I was using the Google one for a while until I decided to try the trial. I came from BlackBerry and I must say that this is the closest experience I've had to that keyboard literally no look typing. Love it.

Love the keyboard except for the fact that it predicts my main password no matter what letter or word I'm going for. Lets say my password is "monkey123" and I'm trying to type "hotel", it will recommend combinations of things like "monkey123 hotel" or "monkey123monkey123 hostel". Very annoying because anyone looking sees my password out in the open and I've accidentally sent it to people. Wasn't always like this. Something changed in one of the updates a while ago. Customer service just ignored me.